matthudson

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by matthudson 10y ago
HN search has been one of the most helpful resources (among many) to my personal and professional life. +1 for that alone. It sowed the seeds for a career path (went from a yoeman replaceable scripter to a guy with a reliable paycheck that
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by matthudson 10y ago
Call to action: Machine learners, you'd better start tuning your sarcasm classifiers.
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by matthudson 13y ago
A large portion of my comment was a response to the tone. I shouldn't have done that. Something about the original comment really bothered me. And I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm not a good enough writer to flesh out w
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by matthudson 13y ago
I've thought about it, one part of what "shocked" me about it was the hubris inherent in the statement: "...someone I could save by argument.". As though those that cannot be "saved" are merely a passing f
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by matthudson 13y ago
> "I would recommend against having dealings with the obviously mentally ill. I'm not sure in what sense you might be legally liable (for a civil suit) if they happened to commit suicide a week later and mentioned you in the no
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Loudspeaker Is First Complete 3D-Printed Consumer Electronic(scientificamerican.com)
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Bioterrorism concerns keep genetic code for new strain of botulism under wraps(sacbee.com)
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by matthudson 13y ago
All of them, because it is ridiculous to assume that you know what every person in a particular group of people is like in real life based on the actions of a subset of that group on a message board. Some celebrities "get" reddit,
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by matthudson 13y ago
How can you possibly know that without knowing one of the celebrities personally, and then extend that as a general rule?
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by matthudson 13y ago
> "...it is widely believed by experts and, more importantly, stakeholders..." What sources would you recommend reading to learn more about that? The 9/11 Commission Report? I'm embarrassed to admit that I haven'
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by matthudson 13y ago
I think that can be a feature as well. Also, are the contributors anonymous in the sense that you have no way of knowing the identity of the contributor? Or, anonymous in the sense that the contribution originates from a particular pseudony
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Thinking in Silicon: Processors That Work Like Brains Will Accelerate AI(technologyreview.com)
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The End of Bad Meds (Testing medication in the developing world)(scientificamerican.com)
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by matthudson 13y ago
Have you already modeled it? If you're comfortable leaving an email address so I could get in touch, I can send you a few prints of your design.
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Study Finds Emerging Bird Flu Strain Still Poorly Adapted for Infecting Humans(scripps.edu)
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Is human DNA enough?—potential for bacterial DNA(frontiersin.org)
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by matthudson 13y ago
You should probably start with the Adafruit guide, it's a good survey and starting point. It doesn't delve deeply into actual prototyping, but it covers the 'due diligence' aspect. The first half is run of the mill start
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by matthudson 13y ago
This seems like a good place to start: http://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-build-a-hardware-startup I don't know if you want to do a startup, but there is good information in the guide. Here are some other blog links that
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by matthudson 13y ago
I was being somewhat facetious with that last line. However, I don't think that it is outside the realm of possibility that relatively small entities, on the order of a small-cap corporation or private laboratory, could eventually crea
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by matthudson 13y ago
> "The question I always think of when people raise fears like this about bio-weapons is what what motivations are there for 'bad guys' to release indeterminate killers like a bio-engineered virus?" I'd imagine t
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by matthudson 13y ago
> If you're employee #30 and your share is 0.05%, that might be fair if it's a biotech that has already taken a $100M infusion from the venture capitalists (who'll typically take 90%, in that case). Could you point me in t
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Low-cost titanium powders used in 3D printing for the first time(3ders.org)
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Here's What a Shooting War in the East China Sea Might Look Like(popularmechanics.com)
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New microscope captures movements of atoms and molecules(msutoday.msu.edu)
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Random Structures from Lego Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures [pdf](althofer.de)
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Breakthrough hailed as landmark in fight against hereditary diseases(independent.co.uk)
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Evolution of an Individual's Cancer Can Be Tracked Cell by Cell (scientificamerican.com)
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Nano magnets arise at 2-D boundaries(phys.org)
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Asia’s Submarine Race(news.usni.org)
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Ask HN: Any recommendations of authors on scientific-software consulting?
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